Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Will the ‘whiff of uncertainty’ clear in time for a Spring stock recovery?
Knight Frank senior Tom Bill casts an expert and analytical eye over the current state of play within the property sales market.
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Has estate agent coined a new property term on ITV – the ‘unicorn offer’?
Estate agent Julie Nelson says she has started using the phrase to describe over-the-top bids that, until now, would never have been seen.
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Will energy crisis and Ukraine sap home buyer confidence?
Agents and brokers speak about their fears for the coming months despite rampant house price rises reported by Halifax yesterday.
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London is hardest place to work as an estate agent at the moment
Properties in some areas of the capital are taking 100 days to sell at the moment while in Nottingham it's only 42 days.
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UK is a nation of pet lovers – but not if you’re a landlord!
A new survey of available rented properties, ranks the pet-friendliness of cities around the UK.
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‘Race for space’ goes on
The lockdown-driven trend to find more living space helped fuel the housing boom during the pandemic – but it's not over says survey of brokers.
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‘Get rid of gazumping’ says homebuyers
A new survey of homebuyers has revealed that 85% want gazumping to be made illegal as property sales collapse at a rate of every two minutes.
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The average price of a house in UK rises £24,000 in one year
Official statistics are published for house price inflation, showing a slight drop from the previous month, but still rising up, up and away...
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Scottish average times on the property market plummet by almost 50%
The desperate scramble for property is affecting Scotland too, as available houses are snapped up by frantic buyers, according to a new survey.
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HMRC’s latest transactions stats show no sign of slowing
Industry commentators on HMRC's February 2022 figures for property transactions agree on one thing – the boom booms on!
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